Based on the classic Emile Zola novel, Jean Renoir's "La Bete Humaine" was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes - and earned sta... Read more
A short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French... Read more
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir's exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays... Read more
An incredible spectacle that lavishly documents the French Revolution from the summer of 1789 to the final collapse of Louis XVI's monarchy. This vivi... Read more
French auteur Jean Renoir made his US debut with this thriller about a man wrongly sentenced to hang who escapes from prison to clear his name. After... Read more
A light comedy as well as a satire on bourgeois lifestyle in France. Michel Simon is Boudu, a scruffy tramp who is saved from his suicide attempt by a... Read more
One of the very first prison escape movies, 'Grand Illusion' is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars... Read more
In 1949 and 1950, Renoir travelled to Bengal for his first colour film - the story of a large British family living on the banks of the Ganges. Winnin... Read more
A lively Technicolor romantic comedy from Jean Renoir starring Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful but impoverished Polish princess in turn-of-the-century P... Read more
AKA 'La Regle du Jeu'. One of the greatest films of all time, a satirical anatomy of polite bourgeois society, with a mixture of farce and black comed... Read more
Jean Renoir explores the complex relationship between theatre and life in this highly stylised account of the travels of a commedia dell'arte troupe i... Read more